2 arrested after police alerted to naked woman running around in Pottstown

POTTSTOWN — Police charged two people after being notified that a woman was running around a parking lot without her clothes on.

While on patrol, an officer was flagged down by a woman in the 500 block of King Street at 2:57 p.m.

“(The woman) was visibly upset and told me Dawn Mitchell had removed all her clothing and was running around the parking lot,” the officer said in his report.

Mitchell, 49, of Pottstown, allegedly ran into an apartment before police arrived but when the officer went to speak with her, he was interceded by Mitchell’s estranged boyfriend.

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Thomas Wambold Sr., 51, began yelling at the officer “for no apparent reason...(He) called me every vulgar name in the book,” police reported.

The incident escalated from there as Mitchell allegedly threatened to kill the officer and his family.

Soon two more borough officers arrived as backup, police said.

Wambold, according to police, was shouting and challenging the officers on scene to arrest him, but when officers went to arrest him, Wambold ran into the same apartment as Mitchell, according to the report.

Officers followed Wambold into the kitchen and after several verbal demands to stop resisting, the officer said he “sprayed (Wambold) in the facial area with Oleoresin Capsicum (pepper spray).”

The spray, according to the report, allowed officers an opportunity to take Wambold into custody.

While being escorted to the patrol car, Wambold allegedly tried to kick the arresting officers, police said. He also allegedly threatened to kill the officers driving him back to the station. Mitchell, who was inside the apartment when officers used the pepper spray, was also arrested in the kitchen.

Both Wambold and Mitchell tried to pull away from officers while being put into cells at the Pottstown Police Department, police said.

Wambold was charged with terroristic threats, resisting arrest and several misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct, according to court records. He is confined to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in lieu of $25,000 bail.

Mitchell, who faces three felony counts of assault and one count of open lewdness, is also in the county correctional facility in lieu of $25,000 bail.

The pair is expected in front of District Judge Edward C. Kropp Sr. on July 3 at 10 a.m.

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Caroline Sweeney formerly worked as the police reporter for the Pottstown Mercury. She is no longer on staff. If you wish to contact anyone at The Mercury about her stories, please call our main number at 610-323-3000 and ask for the editorial department. Reach the author at csweeney@pottsmerc.com
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